Pastry General

>>9052820
Try watching couple seasons of The Great British Bake Off. I mean it, the show is fun, contestants are usually very nice and they can redpill you on some basic techniques. Other than that I'd say practice makes perfect, I've been baking for maybe seven years now and there's still room for improvement

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>>9054124
Do watch this show, they cover a lot that you need to be aware of.

>>9052820
if you need to make a meringue, make sure your bowl is clean and there is no yolk in your egg whites.

read your recipe twice and get all your stuff ready before you start, it sucks not being ready for the next step or out of a ingredient.

ask questions. just to make sure your doing it the way they like.

chocolate sells great, tall multi layer of chocolate cake, truffles.
Tall apple walnut pies do well too. Don't cook your apples on the stove top, they are to mushy if you cook them and bake them

if your coming up with desserts get a good baking cook book. I found one at borders some years back for half off called "baking". tons of recipes and pics.

if your burning sugar for creme brulee, "sugar in the raw" works better and less likely to burn black. they sell single serve packets too

before starting the mixer make sure it's on low!

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>>9052820
I mostly got this down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0ycnmKjEgM

mine doesn't look anywhere near as good but I feel motivated as I learned how to get egg whites to firm up and a few other things

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i have trouble getting my cream puffs to puff well.

>>9054174
what a huge fagot made that pic

>>9056720
Somebody's grumpy this morning.